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Their Own Desire Oscar Nominations & Wins

Their Own Desire has 1 Academy Award record in the AwardWentTo archive, including 0 wins.

Wins recorded in the archive

No winning records for Their Own Desire are represented in this archive. Its recorded nominations are listed below.

All 1 award record

Counts reflect film-linked records in this archive. Historical, special and honorary awards may be included; these are not a verified competitive-award total. Years identify the source film eligibility year.

Their Own Desire: all recorded nominations and wins
Film yearCategory / credited nomineeRecorded result
Film year1929/30Best Actress
Credited nominee / recipientNorma Shearer

Lucia 'Lally' Marlett

Source context

NOTE: As allowed by the award rules for this year, a single nomination could honor work in one or more films. Though the final awards ballot listed both The Divorcee and Their Own Desire in her nomination, the award was announced for only the The Divorcee performance. It has never been established as to why this was, but it possibly could have been because the original report from the Acting Branch Board of Judges only listed The Divorcee performance in the results of the nominations voting, or it could have been because on some of the final ballots, the voters had indicated the The Divorcee performance over the other.

Award record — see source context
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